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solixxx

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Registered: 2013-03-11

Posts: 10

Need help with recovering data from a truecrypt HDD

I have done something stupid, I have run fdisk on my truecrypt hdd by mistake, and created 2 new partition. the 1st one on 67mb and the 2sd for the rest of the hdd.

Can someone plz help me with restoring the data? I am not really sure there to begin.

graysky

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Registered: 2008-12-01

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Re: Need help with recovering data from a truecrypt HDD

Restore your backup.  You are likely f*cked with out it.

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solixxx

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Registered: 2013-03-11

Posts: 10

Re: Need help with recovering data from a truecrypt HDD

Restore your backup.  You are likely f*cked with out it.

I do not have a backup, but most of the data I have on it will not have been override, so I was hopping that I would be able mount it somehow, and recover it to another hdd.

graysky

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Re: Need help with recovering data from a truecrypt HDD

You'll have to take to google, my experience begins and ends with undeleting photos from flash media using test disk.  Our wiki is limited on the topic, but may provide some starting points: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/File_Recovery

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MoonSwan

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Registered: 2008-01-23

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Re: Need help with recovering data from a truecrypt HDD

Get testdisk.  I use Parted Magic to recover partitions with Testdisk.  So long as you can decrypt the resurrected partitions AND provided you have NOT written to those two partitions after they were fdisk'ed you should be able to recover from this mess.  I really recommend PartedMagic for this sort of thing only because it has a good interface and a lot of other tools in one place.

Testdisk isn't hard to use and there are mini-tutorials out there if you're really stuck such as these links from our wiki:
Testdisk and Photorec

solixxx

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Registered: 2013-03-11

Posts: 10

Re: Need help with recovering data from a truecrypt HDD

I will try it